This report discusses the class action and proposed reform in the 107th congress, in four different categories: (I) Background, (II) the legislation, (III) Section 1-7 and (IV) Possible Objections.

In this paper they study generalizations of the Diffie-Hellman problems recently used to construct cryptographic schemes for practical purposes. The Group Computational and the Group Decisional Diffie-Hellman assumptions not only enable one to construct efficient pseudo-random functions but also to naturally extend the Diffie-Hellman protocol to allow more than two parties to agree on a secret key. In this paper they provide results that add to their confidence in the GCDH problem. They reach this aim by showing exact relations among the GCDH, GDDH, CDH and DDH problems.

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Inertial fusion targets can be categorized by the ignition scheme, the implosions mechanism and the driver technology used to supply the compression and the ignition energy. We will briefly review each of these elements. There are two ignition methods currently being considered. The first, called hotspot ignition, heats a central core of the compressed fuel to ignition temperatures. The assembly of a sufficiently large hotspot is accomplished by stagnation of a convergent flow. The assembled configuration of the hotspot, and surrounding compressed, low temperature fuel, will be approximately isobaric. The second ignition technique, called fast ignition, heats cold compressed fuel to ignition temperatures directly with an external source of heat. This technique has become practicable by the advent of short-pulse, high-intensity lasers using chirped-pulse-amplification (CPA), that can compress laser pulses to extremely high power. If focused appropriately, these fast-ignition laser beams can provide the same power densities as result from the hydrodynamic flow stagnation of the first technique. Inertial fusion fuel can be compressed by two techniques, referred to as direct and indirect drive. Directly driven capsules directly absorb energy delivered by the external compression driver and use it to implode the fusion fuel. Indirectly driven targets absorb the external …